[ros-general] Re: TDI-Based Open Source Personal Firewall

[Wesley Parish]

On Tue, 15 Nov 2005 08:47, Ged Murphy wrote:
> David Hinz wrote:
> > Ralph Shumaker schrieb:
> >> Will ZoneAlarm work on ROS?  I know that it stays silent, ignoring
> >> "unwanted packs".  I don't think it's open source, but it works well
> >> on windows.
> >
> > Since the goal of ROS is to be binary compatible with Windows NT, I
> > would say yes, but I also think ZoneAlarm is a horrible Firewall,
> > there are many better Firewalls available.
> > The best solution would be to create a new Firewall for ROS or change
> > an existing one the way we want it, to include it in ROS.
>
> Considering there is no decent open source firewall available for
> windows, and the fact that including one is a _must_, this is exactly
> what we will be doing.

I've thought occasionally, since the MS Win[9N][xT] TCP/IP stack is based on 
the *BSD one, that it should be possible to adapt the OpenBSD firewall/s to 
the MS Win-compatible TCP/IP stack.  I thought of it when my Mum's MS Win05 
box went online, but haven't had the time to do anything about it.

What do people think?

Wesley Parish
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> Ged
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